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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

lDANIEL BnDAVIS AND JOSIAH J. FISHER, OF LARAMIE, lVYOMING TERRITORY.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,767, dated November 26, 1889.

Application filed August '7, 1889. Serial No. 320,018. (No model.)

, and the objects of our improvement are to provide the car with means to carrya large amount of feed and water without enlarging the dimensions of said car; also, to provide the car with means to facilitate the loading and unloading thereof. e attain these objects by theconstruction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of a stoclecar constructed in accordance with our invention.

Fig. 2 is a top view of the same, with the roof partly broken away to show the hay-loft, having its floor consisting of water-pipes, and also the water-reservoirs alongside thereof. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of the car. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section of the car through the central doors thereof, one of said doors being shown open and the other closed. Fig. 5 is a transverse vertical section, on an enlarged scale, of a portion of one of the water-reservoirs, with its filling-nozzle properly capped. Fig. 6 is a diagram perspective of one of the hay-mangers and flexible trough, the latter being shown folded flat in dot-ted lines. I

In said drawings, A represents the frame of the car, of suitable construction to carry animals or freight. The car is provided in the interior with vertical timbers B at suitable distances apart and attached to the sides thereof to divide it into stalls. Said timbers are longitudinally grooved at b to receive the 'ends of the removable board partitions B the upper end of said grooves being open at b for the introduction or removal of said partitions.

To provide room in the car for hay or other bulky feed for the animals, the car is provided with a hay-loft 0 under the roof of the car, and to provide means to carry a large amount of water without encroaching upon the capacity of the hay-loft the floor of the latter consists of a series of pipes D, laid longitudinally nearly the whole length of the car upon the ceiling-joists E, placed over or upon the upper end of the stall-timbers B, and upon said joists are also placed two cylindrical reservoirs D adjacent to the sides of the car. These reservoirs are connected together at their ends by means of pipes (Z and the latter are connected to each one of the pipes D of the hay-loft floor by means of pipes d,

so that the reservoirs and the pipes D are in open communication with each other at both ends .of the car. The, reservoirs are also pro- Ivided at each end with vertical pipes e, that are preferably located within the f ram ed ends of the car between the inner and outer covering thereof, and said pipes e extend through 'the floor of the car and are provided at their lower ends with couplings 6 by which the pipes e of two successive cars of a train can be coupled, together. The connecting transverse pipes (1 of the hay-loft are also provided with a central horizontal pipe (1 that extends through the ends of the cars, and may be provided with a flexible length of pipe provided with a coupling to connect horizontally at that pointthe hay-lofts of two successive cars of a train; and to prevent the water in the reservoirs D and in the floor of the hay-loft from escaping when one or more cars are detached from a train of stock-cars, the connecting-pipes d are provided with a valve (1 thereon, and the vertical pipes e are 'also provided with valves d that can be reached by turning on its hinges theend boards a of the car.

The hay-mangers consist of vertical pipes f, that have their upper ends connected together by means of a pipe f that is pivotally supported at the points f by the ceilingjoists E, and said pipes f are connected either with the reservoirs D as shown in Fig. 4, or with the hay-loft-floor pipes D by means of flexible pipes f at one end,which are controlled by valves f as shown in Fig. (i, and the opposite end of the pipe f carries a vent valve f to facilitate the escape of air from the pipes f, and has also a short piece of pref-- erably flexible pipe f to direct the water from the pipe f to the water-trough portion 9 of the feed-trough G. Said feed and water trough is pivotallysuspcnded from the pipe f by means of metal straps g at the ends thereof.

To rotect the animals against in'ur and from becoming bruised or cut when thrown against the feed and water trough, either by the motion of the cars or when stamping their front feet to protect themselves against flies, the body of the trough consists of flexible materialas close-woven cotton-duck or other substantially impervious or waterproof materialhaving its mouth stretched upon and secured to an endless rod bent to form a substantially rectangular frame, having pintles 9 that are received .in the perforated lower ends of the straps g Another advantage obtained by making the feed-troughs of flexible material, as aforesaid, is that they can be folded flat, as shown by dotted lines in Figs. 4 and 6, and occupy very little room against the ceiling or pipefloor of the hay-loft. The bottom of the water-trough is provided with a flexible pipe g, to direct the water out of said trough and through the floor of the car.

pipe 9 may be closed either with a valve thereonor with a plug, as used in the upper end of the discharge-pipe of a bath-tub and stationary wash-stands. The reservoirs D are provided with water-receiving nozzles D that extend through the roof of the car, and said nozzles are screw-threaded, preferably in their interior, to receive or to be tightly connected with a hose or spout of the waterj ing-stations of a railroad, so that the water may be forced with considerable pressure into the reservoirs D and smaller pipes of a car, and thence through the flexible pipes above mentioned into the reservoirs and smaller pipes of the successive cars of a train, each one of the nozzles'D being kept closed by a screw-cap D except the nozzle farthest from the watering-station. By this construction the reservoirs of a whole train of stockcars can be filled from one end thereof.

To receive hay in. the hay-loft and permit the attendant to feed the stock therefrom, openings closed by hinged doors are formed in the roof, either at h, centrally under the walking-board of the car, or at k on the sides of said roof opposite the head of each stall.

To facilitate the reception of stock or of freight in the car, the vertical timbers K, forming the door-frame on the outside of the car, extend below the floor thereof and are grooved laterally to receive the edges of the door. Said door consists of two parts hinged together. Thelower part L is wider than the upperpart L The latter is substantially of the same width as the distance between the timbers K at their lower portion, so that when Said flexible the doors are lowered until the hooks Z, secured to the upper end of the part L, rest upon the trausverserod m, secured to the face of the timbers K, the upper part L can be swung outwardly, as shown on the right-hand side of Fig. 4, and used as a gang-plank to load or unload the car. The lower part L has its ends permanently engaged in the groove /c, while the edges of the upper part L are engaged in said groove only when it has nearly reached the upper end of its course, the space between the timbers K being narrower at that point. To easily raise or lower the door, a rack Z is secured vertically in the center of the surface of the upper part L and in front of said rack a pinion n is mounted on a horizontal rod n that has one end retained in a swiveled eyebolt 7t ,Wl1il6 the opposite end is supported in a hinged cap-bearing on, secured to the timbers K. A crankhandle n is secured upon one end of the rod 41 to revolve it and raise and lower the door. Between the timbers K a boot N is placed,in which grain feed may be stored for the stock .when the car is used as a stock-car, or to store the removable board partitions B when the car is used for freight.

' The roof the car above the hay-loft maybe of any one of the well-known forms given in the construction of cars.

Having now fully described our invention,

we claim 1. In a stock-car, the combination of a carbody and stalls and above said stalls a hayloft, the floor of which consists of pipes extending the length of said car and so connected as to form a water-reservoir,substanitially as described.

I 2. In a stock-car, the combination of a caribody and stalls and above said stalls a hay- Zloft, the floor of which consists of pipes exitending the length 'of said car, wit-l1 water- ;reservoirs on the sides of said hay-loft and connected with the tubular floor thereof, substantially as described.

3. In a stock-car, the combination of a carbody having vertical stall-timbers and ceilingjoists thereon,a hay-loft, the floor of which consists of pipes, and hay-mangers consisting of vertical pipes closed at bothends by horizontal pipes, the upper horizontal pipe pivoted ;to the ceiling-joists and having a flexible pipe- ,connection with the floor-pipes of the hayloft, substantially as described.

4. In a stock-car, the combination of a carbody, a hay-loft, and tubular reservoirs above the ceiling-joists of said body, with hinged 'hay-mangers consisting of pipes, and watertroughs consisting of flexible material suspended from said mangers, substantially as described 5. In a stock-car, the combination of a carbody, a hay-loft having its floor consisting of pipes and reservoirs on the side thereof, all connected together, and with flexible pipes for connection with a car having a similarlyconstructed hay-loft, nozzles D extending from said reservoirs through the roof of the car, and tightly-closing caps for said nozzles, substantially as described.

6. In a stock-car, the combination of a carbody having the timbers at its ends lined internally and externally, a hay-loft having its floor consisting of pipes, a pipe (Z uniting all of said pipes at the ends, flexible pipes extending between the linings of the ends of the car, and couplings on the lower ends of said pipes, substantially as described.

7. In a stock-car, the combination of a carbody having grooved door-frame timbers K, extending below the floor of said car, and a rod m, connecting said timbers, with a door consisting of an upper and lower part hinged together, and hooks secured to said lower part to rest upon the rod m, substantially as described.

DANIEL B. DAVIS. JOSIAH J. FISHER.

Witnesses:

W. J. Hum, L. O. DAVIS. 

